Monday, 16 March 2020

Creating a culture for learning: Bad Habits - Shiny Happy People

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Ones facial expressions can be extremely vocal to the point where it can set the tone for an entire lesson. Our students often take the tem...
Monday, 2 March 2020

Creating a classroom culture for learning: Breaking Bad Habits Part 2 - The power of pronouns

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  YOU You need to improve your……. When will you learn that…… This is your fault. You did this……… Such statements appear...
Friday, 28 February 2020

Creating a classroom culture for learning: Breaking Bad Habits Part 1 - Wait Time

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Sometimes the simplest educational strategies are the hardest to implement. The classic example - wait time. It’s not simply a case of...
Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Is the death of the teacher (in Norway) inevitable?

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Is the death of the teacher (in Norway) inevitable? Over the last few years I have come to the realisation that the Norwegian education...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Creating a Classroom Culture for Learning: Empathy

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"Daddy, can we go over the jumps so that you can see me jump and I can see you fall?" The words of a six year old called ...
Monday, 26 September 2016

IB: Why action not grit!

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Grit has been lauded as the potential holy grail for academic success.  If you have grit it is argued you a more than likely to be suc...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

IB: Approaches to Learning - getting it right

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                                                                   (Everett Collection) “Consistently high level of impact, with p...